He seems to have been a born tinkerer and figurer-out of problems.
He is a brain-truster, a figurer of acute anglesStalin's sheepdog, ready to run bark at his master's "Go!", cutting out any testy old ram that refuses to trot with the fold.
But even Paul Bunyan himself could not do without Johnny Inkslinger, the master figurer who kept a piece of rubber as big as a barrel on the end of his nose.